We managed to take a wrong turn on our walk back to the cottage, despite M having walked the route a number of times, so we sent out an SOS and K came out to pick us up.
We got back and K's shrewd feminine senses detected we were a bit mangled - I'm happy to admit I felt mostly in control apart from the odd giggle, whereas M seemed a little more wobbly. Regardless, we cracked open a cider and sat down for dinner - home-made lasagne and leafy salad, which was nom nom nom.
I skipped dessert and we retired to the living room for a little Wii action. I feel sorry for K in this respect - M and I probably monopolised the living room and each others' attention, meaning I didn't get as much of a chance to talk to her as I'd liked, mainly because my head was a bit sideways. *shakes fist at beer and hash*
Not having had much experience on a Wii, it was a thrill to be guided around some really innovative games. It is my ambition to own one now, having subsequently borrowed my brother's Wii for a couple of weeks and getting hooked Zelda and Mario Galaxy. What an exciting life I lead.
The Wii sucked up much of the rest of the evening, bar burning a couple of music DVDs. In a step towards the unusual and a tip of the hat to our continued consumption of cider, M arranged a selected playlist by length and copied the longest tracks onto one disc, the shortest onto another. As is wont to happen occasionally with burned discs, I get CRC errors on some tracks on the 'short ones' disc which has made copying them over very, very wearing. So my new expanded music collection consists of the longer tracks of lots of albums,
leaving me with half a musical experience.
We also interrupted Wii time with a gorgeous view of the night sky. The cottage is in the middle of the countryside with very little ambient light and we were blessed with one of the clearest skies I've seen in a long time. The hazy band of the Milky Way was clearly visible after a few minutes, and M's binoculars picked out thousands of individual stars from the ghostly light.
We finally put our heads down in the early morning, and I fell into a satisfying, uninterrupted sleep.
I awoke feeling chipper the next morning, taking in the continued sunshine and sharing tea and toast with K, and I resolved to spend more time getting to know her properly in the future.
After more Wii action and a trip to Waitrose in Newbury for lunch munch, we said our goodbyes and I was dropped near the A34 for my hitch-hike home.
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